Special counsel: Distinctions between Biden & Trump are ‘clear’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s words. Also, the New Hampshire attorney general says the fake Biden robocall is the first major AI attempt to interfere with the election and dupe voters. Plus, Ukrainian forces are running low on supplies as Republicans in Congress hold up a foreign aid package. And the Pennsylvania special election on Tuesday could decide who controls the state House. Rep. Robert Garcia, Clint Watts, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, Simon Shuster, and PA Rep. Joanna McClinton join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Here is Donald Trump today, Friday.
0:04.0	Nice Saturday afternoon.
0:06.0	I could tell you if I weren't doing this where I would have been I would have been in a very nice location.
0:10.0	As you heard again he said that tonight Friday night so 77 year old Donald Trump thought it was
0:18.8	Saturday afternoon when it was actually Friday night. Is he confused? Does he not know what day it is?
0:26.9	Did he just misspeak? Doesn't matter that Trump said Saturday when it was Friday.
0:35.0	And we only offer that tonight as a very important contrast to this.
0:40.0	Several material distinctions between Mr. Trump's case and Mr. Biden's case are clear.
0:47.0	That's a quote from Special Counsel Robert Hur's 388 page report released yesterday on Joe Biden's handling of classified
0:56.0	documents from his time as Vice President, which cleared President Biden of any charges.
1:02.8	Robert Herr goes on to list the stark differences
1:05.5	between how President Biden and Donald Trump
1:08.9	handled classified information,
1:10.8	such as the conspiracy to obstruct justice that Donald Trump was indicted for in the documents case.
1:17.0	American voters will likely have two choices in November.
1:22.0	Donald Trump, who's old and is criminally charged
1:26.2	with 91 felony counts in four cases,
1:28.6	including two cases related to his effort
1:31.4	to subvert the 2020 election, and Joe Biden, who's also old and sometimes
1:37.8	misspeaks or misremembers.
1:40.3	President Biden, who is a mere three years older than Donald Trump, is, in his own words, a quote,
1:48.4	gaff machine. And he always has been. This is how the Daily Show covered Fox's coverage of Joe Biden's Gaffes 15 years ago.
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